I really really love this, the colors are amazing, as many have pointed out. My one critique would be the barrels that are just sort of slapped in there, in the full image the two in the grass appear to just be floating there. I would reccomend giving them a shadow or something so they look mroe grounded. Really wonderful work though, I am in awe of those hills.

Really great, I don't add favorites very often, but this is definitely worth a spot in my collection. Some nitpicks here and there (e. g. same looking clouds with harsh cropping), but I'm totaly fine with that since it's a game asset.

I spend *a lot of time* after I've made some initial hue choices in photoshop, messing with 'color balance' making really minute changes to every color for every channel, seeing if something looks a bit better with more cyan, more purple, whatever.

The reason I do this is because I've trained myself badly for 10 years with too much grey, so I ended up with a lot of very muddy pictures. When you add color via color balance, it will tint every grey in the direction you added the color towards. So it's an efficient way for me to reign in all the fanciful hue shift reflexes I have by pulling the whole thing in one direction.

In addition, if you're enjoying the summer feel of the picture, that's also the result of color balance, in that when you add certain bright colors to an already bright image you get to very carefully overexpose it, it has something of a 'bloom' feel to it. I've done this many times since, but not on artwork I've gotten to show off.

So although I can't tell you how to pick colors, I will tell you that messing with overall color balance is a big part of my process.